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Before you use the "I have nothing to hide" argument please read this paper--all of it. If you can't find the time, then this article should at least get you thinking about why privacy matters.

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Practical Packet Analysis is a good book on this if you are interested in it. This is always why you secure access to your network and why you don't just hop on to a unknown network unless you have some kind of VPN tunnel or ssl type connection set up. This is of course assuming whatever you are doing on said strange network is something you want kept private, i.e. anything you need a password for. Who cares if they know you went to cnn.com though.

But yes, this is a good exercise. If you can read it in wireshark then so can anyone who is anywhere in the route of the packet. Also it will very clearly let you see the difference between what your adapter leaks when you're browsing in the open as compared to when you're running OpenVPN. With VPN running it is just a wall o' encryption.